An event slated for this weekend aims to help veterans and their family members negotiate the often labyrinthine challenge of securing benefits. ...more

January 29, 2009

Like most of their House colleagues, Tampa Bay lawmakers split along party lines Wednesday on the economic stimulus package. ...more

January 29, 2009

A family member's medical emergency forced Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite to leave Washington Monday as the House prepared to debate and vote on President Obama's $825 billion economic stimulus package. ...more

January 28, 2009

Neither rain nor cold nor massive crowds will keep them away from Washington, D.C. next week. ...more

January 17, 2009

Fire Station One on Dairy Road will now comply with the city's sprinkler ordinance, thanks to a federal grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...more

January 15, 2009

It was appropriate, Florida's newest member of Congress' most powerful committee was saying the other day, that Nancy Pelosi ascended to the post of speaker of the House surrounded by children. ...more

January 9, 2009

Two Republican Bay area members of the U.S. House have said they would support giving up their annual, automatic, $4,700 pay raise this year because of the country's struggling economy. Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor of Tampa said today she probably would support a vote to take back the pay raise, which went into effect Thursday. ...more

January 5, 2009

With the economy teetering and thousands of Floridians and other Americans losing their jobs, three Florida members of Congress say they would vote to give up their automatic $4,700 pay raise next year. ...more

December 25, 2008

With the economy teetering and thousands of Floridians and other Americans losing their jobs, three Tampa Bay members of Congress say they would vote to give up their automatic $4,700 pay raise next year. ...more

December 24, 2008

As expected, the local Republican Party took an "if it ain't broken" approach to its executive committee elections late Thursday. ...more

December 21, 2008